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Followed by clothes, hair and shoes, the next trendy item is nail art. It’s getting popular by the day, as it enables girls to enjoy the attention their nails bring in. Nail art requires creative designs, making use of various art forms.

Many may be in awe of nail art designs, yet apprehensive of creating designs on their own nails, as they consider that to be a difficult job. Thankfully, it’s not as that difficult as many imagine it to be, though it requires a bit of patience and some practice. Here are some easy art designs for your nails, prompting you to get started before graduating to more complex designs:

Effortless Nail Art Designs for Novices:

Alternating the Colors:

This is the simplest to accomplish, needing minimum effort. Simply use different colors for each finger and get them noticed.

Use of Effect Polishes

You can get nail polishes for creating many effects, such as Crackle effect, Magnetic effect, Croc effect and Color changing etc. You’ll find them easy for quickly giving your nails a different look.

Water Decals/ Nail Wraps/Nail Stickers

You can also get numerous ready-to-use nail art designs, including water decals, full nail wraps and nail stickers. You can get these with instructions for use, and beginners will find these easy to follow.

Nail Art Deign With Stripes

Stripes make your nail look attractive. You can create stripe with the help of an art stripper, otherwise you may make use of a slim brush.

Dotting Manicure

Dots look stylish with simple looks. You may use dots on nails to create flowery designs. This is probably the simplest and the first step for nail design without any templates.

Animal Prints

Animal prints of leopard and zebra are not at all difficult to create, and they make your nail look very cute.

Polka Dot Heart Nails

Valentine Day may be far away, but this design is suitable for any time of the year. Pink always looks cute, be it any part of year. For creating this design, leaving your ring finger, dust all your nails in pink. The ring finger is to be painted white, followed by heart-shaped polka dots with the help of a toothpick. Make dots with pink in different shades and finally apply a top coat to seal the design.

Nail Art with Rhinestones

You could easily add some bling to the nails, and rhinestones are wonderful for getting a party look.

Braided Nails:

Fishtail braid manicure – Getting this look is easy and you can surely get it right if you have some patience. You’ll need three nail paints of different colors, which would overlap. You have to give time for each layer to get dried up and it’s over.

Chocolate Nails

This is another very easy design. You just require nail paint in chocolate color and a few decorations, such as hearts (perhaps you’ll find busted hair clips handy). Use nail glue to stick them together and put in golden glitter nail paint on the thumb and pinky.

Colored Rhinestone Half-moons

Half-moon nail arts look classy at all times! In this case, you paint your nails in black and then include rhinestones in different colors close to the cuticle areas, followed by a top coat that dries quickly.

Tips with Glitter Gradient

For a fresh look, try glitter gradients. Paint your nails with black paint and with help of sponge add fuchsia glitter nail paint. Do apply a top coat after it gets dried.

Water Drops/Few Drops Nail Art

For getting this look, you make a maroon to purple gradient and follow that up with a matte top coat to cover it. Allow it to get dried before adding dots of plain nail paint with help of a toothpick on single side of nails.

Glitter Gradient on Half-moons:

This gives very refined and stylish looks. Should you prefer this, paint your nail with mauve and add silver glitter with help of a sponge over the half-moon part. You may also use glitter eye shadow or just dry glitter mixed with clear nail paint.

Digital Nail Art

These designs simply look great if executed appropriately. First, you paint the nails in white and allow them to dry thoroughly. Next, with help of a black stripper pen draw black lines and fill in some areas with diverse color, leaving some areas white. To get an even better look, you may need to draw black lines once again. After it has dried, apply quickly a drying top coat.

Mix match nails

Mix and match nail give a very chic and terrific look. This can be achieved by applying yellow paint on the middle finger plus thumb, the pointer finger in black will have white polka dots, the pinky will have black and white lines, and the ring finger will have a graphite glitter color. Once you are done with nail paint, apply a top coat.

Feather Nail Art

It’s getting trendy to have real feathers on your nails. Just paint your nails and add feathers on painted nail while the paint is wet. Give it some time to settle down. Then, trim the feather in the shape of nails and finally apply the top coat.

Chain and stud nails

For getting such nails, you need to paint these in two colors and then add chain and studs over them. You would also have some animal print on the pointer and pinky finger.

Glitter nails with dark-colored tips

This look is achieved by painting your nails with glitter polish and adding thin dark-colored tips. Finally seal the nails using a superior top coat.

Gradient with stamping nails

For getting this design, just make gradients using varied colors on all the nails, stamp them with your preferred design, and apply a top coat at the end.

Glow in the dark nails

You’ll find these superb when going for a night out. These are special nail polishes formulated to glow in dark.